Alexis Maragold writes fantasy that feels alive in the bones, born from afternoons spent staring at the shifting light through pine trees near her home in Raleigh, North Carolina. She did not grow up dreaming of dragons and ruined cities simply to escape reality. She saw in her own experiences, especially living with chronic illness, the same fierce grit and tender longing that make speculative fiction so compelling. That tension between vulnerability and survival drives her work and draws readers into worlds that are strange but emotionally familiar.

Sols & Shades

In a world where light kills and darkness shelters, the Sols & Shades series follows those caught between survival and the fierce desire to live on their own terms. Beneath the earth, in the subterranean city of Caligo, women are valued only for what they can give—marriage, children, obedience. Each year, ten unwed, childless women are drafted for the Hunt, sent aboveground to face the Sols—once-human creatures twisted by sunlight and corrupt magic.